I find myself slightly surprised that solar minimum wouldn’t be the best time to work 10/15m sats.
With traditionally poor band conditions the ionosphere won’t be reflective- making it ideal for getting your signal up and down to/from the sat, through the now-transparent ionosphere. No?
Cheers Tom
On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 at 18:18, Bob Rossi via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
It's too bad we will be in a low sunspot situation for the next few years. But who knows what can happen. You can read about G3IOR's experiences with OTH propagation RS-12 mode K DX operation where he was able to work a ZL station, in his article in the Jul/Aug 1993 issue of the AMSAT Journal titled "Using RS-12 Mode "K" Anomalous Propagation". I think the higher sunspots played a role with this.
There's also his audio interview about this topic in 2015 at: https://criticaldistance.blogspot.com/2015/04/
it's almost at the end of the Radio Luxembourg audio at the top of the page.
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